“That’s why we built the Practice House. So many girls now are not learning what they need to learn at home."

"The Practice House had been on Charlotte’s tour of the high school: a cute little cottage at the top of a hill where girls could learn to dust and iron and mop. Charlotte had been incredulous at the time; what were the girls doing at home, then, she wanted to know? Did they all have servants, or were they just slow learners, or what? It was the craziest idea she’d ever heard, like building a barn at the school and filling it with cows."

"The Practice House" as a title is an interesting one--what's the correlation between it and the centering of the novel on adultery? But anyway--Just an ok read for me as, I did not like the main characters nor did I find any sympathy in their situation.